This small, lightweight tank was designed to support airborne troops and were carried by specially designed gliders. Although many successfully landed they did not fare well in combat due to their inferior armour and firepower.

This kit from Warlord comes with three separate barrels allowing assembly of different variants of the model.

Tetrarchs were made from 1938 – 1942. And the reason the barrels look small is because it is a 2pdr gun. With 14mm armour, the 3 man drews were really brave going up against Panzer 4’s. Fun fact: There were only between 100-200 made… some of which were DD varients.

You don’t need to come up with a “what if” scenario for Pegasus Bridge, later on the day they air landed a bunch of them just a few km away to the east to support the paras between the Orne and the Dive rivers. Not sure how much use they saw, it apparently took a while for some to get of the landing area as their tracks got stuck on abandoned parachutes if I’m not mistaken.

Yeah, @neves1789 – we mentioned it very briefly in the original Desert War article series (even though it wasn’t really a “desert” battle – it was part of the wider African theater). Some people requested more information on it so I put a little spotlight on it in the support thread. 😀

Definitely one of those “peripheral gems” a lot of people don’t know about. I think I ran that Panzer Leader game just so I could say I’ve honestly used the Tetrarch in a live wargame (my whole Commonwealth force included just the one historical platoon, so one counter in Panzer Leader).

Syria is another fun one. June ’41, I think (Operation Exporter). It’s interesting and yet sad, because it features Free French and Vichy French in actually pretty bloody combat against each other. Brian Train did a scenario on it in his Desert Leader expansion of Panzer Leader (2000).